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Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

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Author Biography

Name: Esther Forbes
Birth Date: June 28, 1891
Death Date: August 12, 1967
Nationality: American
Gender: Female

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Biography of Esther Forbes
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While Esther Forbes was primarily a writer of adult historical fiction, her two attempts at writing for children. Johnny Tremain (1943) and America's Paul Revere (1948), have won universal critical acclaim and clearly established her as a respected write...


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Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes - 1943 Summary
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Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes - 1943 Introduction Esther Forbes believed that history is not about events as much as it is about people. As a result, Johnny Tremain, a historical novel set in colonial Boston just prior to and at the beginning of the...
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Johnny Tremain Information
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Johnny Tremain, a 1943 children's novel by Esther Forbes, retells in narrative form the final years in Boston, Massachusetts, prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution. The novel's themes include the apprenticeship system, the conflicts in Boston...


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Critical Essay by Carolyn Horovitz
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It should be no surprise, if Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes, finds its way into the upper "rare" stratosphere of literary excellence. Lauded ever since it first appeared, it continues to be read and regarded as a fine historical novel. It is a book much praised, but it has not, as far as I know, been critically examined. (p. 139) Basically, the story is one of character development, of a boy's struggle with his feelings of inferiority and worth, his attempts to find a place for himsel...
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Critical Essay by Ellen Lewis Buell
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Only a master craftsman, and one who has worked so much in the period that it has become a kind of second home in time, would dare to undertake that most familiar of themes—Boston at the outbreak of the war. Such a novelist is Esther Forbes and to ["Johnny Tremain"] she brings such freshness and vitality that one reads it with the avidity with which one follows today's news, with the extra dividend of pleasurable recognition of half forgotten episodes thrown in. The reason, of co...
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Critical Essay by John Rowe Townsend
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[Johnny Tremain has an] inspirational note: 'We fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.'… [It] is a true historical novel, concerned with actual historical events; and it seems to me (though not for this reason) that it has true classic quality. I have the impression that the author may even have known she was writing a classic; for Johnny Tremain has an air of absolute sureness and solidity; like one of its redoubtable New Englanders it knows where it is going ...
 
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